Growing up on a farm in West Wales has already provided Llinos Mai with plenty of adventures for a stage show.

Now her cult comedy with music, The Harri-Parris – which is currently touring Wales – is about to be taken to new audiences.

For Mai and her team have just recorded three episodes which will premiere on BBC Radio Wales this August. But she admits there was one stark difference – the lack of dancing.

“You can’t have dance routines like we do in our current stage tour, The Big Day – and I love doing dance routines,” she laughs.

“I had to think about writing it in a very different way but it was an amazing experience for us to record it in front of an audience for radio. And they weren’t the usual people who come along to our stage shows. So it’s exciting that it’s being opened up new people.”

Mai grew up in Puncheston, Pembrokeshire, and says her early life on a farm inspired her to dream up The Harri-Parris.

“I hit 30 and wanted to create a character for myself who was going to be a proper grown up,” says Mai, who trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and plays farmer’s daughter Anni Harri-Parri.

“I knew it was going to be a musical comedy because that’s my forte. I’m from a farming family from West Wales and used what I know for the basis for the show.”

So the rather dysfunctional Harri-Parris and the fictional village of Llanllai were born.

The first outing, The Leaving Do, proved a hit and was even taken to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Llinos Mai is rather overdressed for farm life

It follows the fortunes of the Harri-Parri family and Mai draws on many influences from her own life – from the nightclubs she would visit as a teenager to events on the farm.

“Very early on, this farming family appeared because of my background and they were going to be a band which travelled to various theatres to put on a show.

“But I thought it would be more exciting for audiences to be invited into their farmhouse kitchen so that’s where the action unfolds. The characters are quite bonkers – my character is probably the straightest of the lot.”

The follow-up, The Big Day, which opened in Milford Haven and heads to Cardiff next week, sees the Harri-Parris meeting the fiance of daughter Anni for the first time – a day before the wedding.

Mai used the basis of the stage show for the radio comedy, which was commissioned when Kerry McGeever of BBC Radio Wales saw a development performance of The Big Day.

“In the radio show, there’s no talk of a wedding but each episode features a visit from the new boyfriend so the audience gets to meet the family through his eyes.”

Mai, who now lives in Cardiff, enjoyed writing the three 27-minute episodes for the radio.

“It was my first time and it was a massive learning curve for me but we have three really tight scripts and I’m really pleased with them.”

So what next for the Harri-Parris?

“There’s more on it’s way,” says the writer and actress. “And it’s going to be based around the nativity.”

The Harri-Parris: The Big Day is at Theatr John Ambrose in Ruthin, tonight (March 24), Neuadd Ogwen, Bethesda, tomorrow (March 25), Borough Theatre, Abergavenny on Friday (March 27), Theatr Hafren, Newtown on Saturday (March 28) and Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff from March 31 to April 4